Islam in General

The author’s objective in writing this book reflects a comprehensive and logical conception of Islam to all human beings regardless of their religious beliefs.  The aim is to portray Islam as a whole, in a single perspective, building a coherent and organic structure of human life. The basis of this concept is in order to explain the rational basis of our beliefs, presenting Islamic modes of worship, outlining the Islamic way of life with the aim to unveil the wisdom behind such concepts. The reader primarily will find this book to be self sufficient “Towards Understanding Islam”. 

About the Author

Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama'at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages.

Author: Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi

Publisher: Idara Tarjuman ul Quran

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Author:  Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi

Publisher: Islamic Publications

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Pages: 496

This book has been widely lauded by academicians, lawyers, legists, jurists, politicians, students of political science, Muslim and non-Muslim scholars of Islam, and many others interested in knowing the political system of Islam. It also provides information about the historic struggle of the Muslims in the early years of the newborn state of Pakistan, to achieve the objectives for which this country came into being. It gives an account of the combined endeavors of the politico-religious leadership of that time to put the country in the right direction, the obstacles they faced during their struggle to achieve the objectives, and the popular ‘Movement for Islamic Constitution’, which earned the country its first “Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan”, in 1956.

The fundamental conception, on which this book is based upon is to, primarily dispel the false accusation and concept of Islam being a violent religion which preaches the spilling of blood to its followers in light of explaining the concept of fair war in various theologies apart from Islam such as Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. The author Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi himself refrains from presenting their own opinion rather the notion is supported by referring to the teachings of Islam and its laws without any alterations and presented exactly as inscribed in the Holy Quran, the Hadith and books of Islamic jurisprudence. To present our own belief system, commandments, teachings and codes and put forth arguments in support of them following which it is left to the reader’s intellect.

About the Author

Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama'at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages.

Author: Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi

Publisher: Idara Tarjuman ul Quran

Translated by: Wing Cmdr. Syed Rahatullah Shah

Editor: Syed Firasat Shah

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Pages: 442 

Publisher:  The Islamic Foundation/Kube Publishing

Author:  Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi (Translated by Syed Akif)

Dimensions:  5 x 8.4

Pages: 291

An attempt to bring out the relationship between the concept of civilization and Islam’s underlying worldview and vision of life. This book argues that the true understanding of Islamic civilization is possible only by having access to the soul of that civilization and its underlying fundamental principles belief in God, the Angels, the Prophets, the Revealed Books and the Last Day rather than to its manifestations in knowledge, literature, fine arts, refined living and system of governance.

About the Author

Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama'at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages.

Publisher: Kube Publishing

Author: Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi 

Dimensions:  4.25 x 8.25

Pages:  311

LET US BE MUSLIMS is an English version of Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi's Urdu Khutubat. It is no ordinary book, says Khurram Murad in his introduction, for it has stirred more hearts and impelled more lives to change their course than any of his more erudite works. In these Friday congregational addresses, Syed Maudoodi expounds such familiar themes as Iman, Islam, the Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving, Pilgrimage and Jihad. But, in an unusually beautiful, powerfully reasoned, eloquent and passionate, and yet simple and lucid style, he imparts to these very teachings a life and revolutionary ardour that recalls their original proclamation and institution. This he does mainly by restoring the vital links between life and Iman, Iman and actions, Jihad and Iman, Iman and history. Having been made whole again and placed at the centre of life, Iman, in Syed Maudoodi’s discourse, regains its power to change man and his world.

Originally delivered more than seven decades ago, in 1938-39, before ordinary, almost illiterate, farmers and servicemen, it meets the real and great spiritual and cultural needs of Muslims and, despite the passage of time, retains its original freshness. This translation now attempts to bring Syed Maudoodi’s message with some of its original charm and vigour to millions of English-speaking Muslims. It is a book that should inspire every Muslim to think and renew his commitment of Iman to Allah.

About the Author

MAULANA SYED ABUL ALA MAUDOODI (1903-79), one of the chief architects and leaders of the contemporary Islamic resurgence, was an outstanding Islamic thinker and writer. He devoted his entire life to expounding the meaning and message of Islam, inviting individuals to renew their commitment to their Creator, and to organizing a movement to establish Islamic fully. In 1941, he founded Jama‘at Islami, of which he remained Amir (Chief) until 1972 and which is one of the most prominent Islamic movements of our day. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both scholarly and popular, and his writings have been translated into forty languages.

KHURRAM MURAD (1932-96) was formerly Director General of the Islamic Foundation. Born in 1932, he studied civil engineering at the universities of Karachi (BE 1952) and Minnesota, USA (MS 1958), and worked as a leading consulting engineer at Karachi, Dhaka, Tehran and Riyadh. He had been actively involved in the Islamic movement since 1948. Prior to his death he held the position of Na’ib Amir of the Jama‘at. His more than 30 published works in English and Urdu include Interpersonal Relations in an Islamic Movement (Urdu) and Way to the Qur’an, apart from a number of books for children. He was also the editor of the monthly Tarjumanul Qur’an and the quarterly Muslim World Book Review.

Publisher: The Islamic Foundation/Kube Publishing

Author: Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi

Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.25

Pages: 238

With a focus upon the social dimension of worship Maudoodi's original approach to religious ritual and self-purification considers worship's transformative role in social life, as well as on the spirit. This work offers an illuminating and unique study of the nature and significance of Islamic spirituality by a leading Muslim intellectual from the twentieth century.

Worship in Islam is an in-depth study of the nature and significance of Islamic spirituality by Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi, one of the leading Muslim intellectuals of the twentieth century, with special reference to the concepts of God’s Oneness (tawhid), the finality of Prophethood (risalah) and the Islamic system of worship (ibadah) and a focus upon prayer (salah) and fasting (ṣawm) and their role in the development of the Islamic personality and Islam’s social order. The distinguishing feature of Mawdūdī’s approach is his elaboration of the social dimension of worship, which extends the traditional approach found in Islamic jurisprudence, with its focus upon ritual and self-purification, to consider worship’s transformative role in social life. Presenting a holistic view of the Islamic system, Mawdūdī highlights Islam’s social, economic and political dimensions, which he argues have the capacity to resolve emergent issues and problems that humankind faces.

Edited and translated into accessible English by Ahmad Imam Shafaq Hashemi, this book is an authoritative compilation of a leading Islamic revivalist’s reflections upon the central matter of worship’s role in Islam. This historic text should be of wider interest to both students and specialists in contemporary Islamic thought, and includes an introduction by Professor Anis Ahmad.

About the Author

Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi (1903-1979) was a leading Muslim intellectual and a chief architect of the Islamic revival in the twentieth century. In 1941 he founded Jama'at-i-Islami, a political party in Pakistan, which he led until 1972. He authored more than a hundred works on Islam, both popular and scholarly, and his writings have been translated into some forty languages.